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The critical role of affect regulation accounting for increased general distress, risk to self, and lower quality of life in females with EUPD and CPTSD, compared to EUPD alone (2023)
Journal Article
Morris, D., Webb, E., Umpunjun, P., Fox, E., Dickens, A., Leson, A., Sadler, E., Lupattelli Gencarelli, B., Taylor, V., McAllister, P., & Karatzias, T. (2024). The critical role of affect regulation accounting for increased general distress, risk to self, and lower quality of life in females with EUPD and CPTSD, compared to EUPD alone. European Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, 8(1), Article 100374

Background: Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD) and Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder (EUPD) have shared aetiology and symptomatology, and are associated with multiple comorbidities and poor clinical outcomes. Evidence from studies... Read More about The critical role of affect regulation accounting for increased general distress, risk to self, and lower quality of life in females with EUPD and CPTSD, compared to EUPD alone.

From pilgrimage to volunteer tourism: A spiritual journey in the contemporary world (2023)
Journal Article
Polus, R., & Carr, N. (2024). From pilgrimage to volunteer tourism: A spiritual journey in the contemporary world. Anatolia, 35(3), 607-620. https://doi.org/10.1080/13032917.2023.2289610

The aim of this paper is to explore how the experiences of international volunteer tourists can contribute to the rejuvenation of the concept of pilgrimage in the contemporary world. Through thematic analysis of the individual portraits, this paper i... Read More about From pilgrimage to volunteer tourism: A spiritual journey in the contemporary world.

A case study of fairness in generated images of Large Language Models for Software Engineering tasks (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sami, M., Sami, A., & Barclay, P. (2023, October). A case study of fairness in generated images of Large Language Models for Software Engineering tasks. Presented at 2023 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME), Bogotá, Colombia

Bias in Large Language Models (LLMs) has significant implications. Since they have revolutionized content creation on the web, they can lead to more unfair outcomes, lack of inclusivity, reinforcement of stereotypes and ethical and legal concerns. No... Read More about A case study of fairness in generated images of Large Language Models for Software Engineering tasks.

The impact of the degree of coupling coordination between green finance and environmental regulations on firms’ innovation performance: evidence from China (2023)
Journal Article
Yang, T., Sun, Z., Du, M., Du, Q., Li, L., & Shuwaikh, F. (2024). The impact of the degree of coupling coordination between green finance and environmental regulations on firms’ innovation performance: evidence from China. Annals of Operations Research, 332(1-3), 1179-1180. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-023-05704-9

Integrating the resource-based view and institution-based view theories, this paper examines the impact of the degree of coupling coordination between green finance and environmental regulations on firms’ innovation performance. Using a sample of 169... Read More about The impact of the degree of coupling coordination between green finance and environmental regulations on firms’ innovation performance: evidence from China.

Hearing loss and cognition: A protocol for ensuring speech understanding before neurocognitive assessment (2023)
Journal Article
Kolberg, E. R., Morales, E. E. G., Thallmayer, T. W., Arnold, M. L., Burgard, S., Chisolm, T. H., Coresh, J., Couper, D., Hayden, K. M., Huang, A. R., Lin, F. R., Mitchell, C. M., Mosley, T. H., Gravens‐Mueller, L., Owens, T. A., Pankow, J. S., Pike, J. R., Reed, N. S., Sanchez, V., Schrack, J. A., …ACHIEVE Collaborative Research Group. (2024). Hearing loss and cognition: A protocol for ensuring speech understanding before neurocognitive assessment. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association, 20(3), 1671-1681. https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.13552

INTRODUCTION: Many neurocognitive evaluations involve auditory stimuli, yet there are no standard testing guidelines for individuals with hearing loss. The ensuring speech understanding (ESU) test was developed to confirm speech understanding and det... Read More about Hearing loss and cognition: A protocol for ensuring speech understanding before neurocognitive assessment.

Alpha 2 agonists for sedation to produce better outcomes from critical illness (A2B Trial): protocol for a multicentre phase 3 pragmatic clinical and cost-effectiveness randomised trial in the UK (2023)
Journal Article
Walsh, T. S., Aitken, L. M., McKenzie, C. A., Boyd, J., Macdonald, A., Giddings, A., Hope, D., Norrie, J., Weir, C., Parker, R. A., Lone, N. I., Emerson, L., Kydonaki, K., Creagh-Brown, B., Morris, S., McAuley, D. F., Dark, P., Wise, M. P., Gordon, A. C., Perkins, G., …Page, V. J. (2023). Alpha 2 agonists for sedation to produce better outcomes from critical illness (A2B Trial): protocol for a multicentre phase 3 pragmatic clinical and cost-effectiveness randomised trial in the UK. BMJ Open, 13(12), Article e078645. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-078645

Introduction: Almost all patients receiving mechanical ventilation (MV) in intensive care units (ICUs) require analgesia and sedation. The most widely used sedative drug is propofol, but there is uncertainty whether alpha2-agonists are superior. The... Read More about Alpha 2 agonists for sedation to produce better outcomes from critical illness (A2B Trial): protocol for a multicentre phase 3 pragmatic clinical and cost-effectiveness randomised trial in the UK.

Exploring the patient experience of remote hypertension management in Scotland during COVID-19: a qualitative study (2023)
Journal Article
Mchale, S., Paterson, M., Pearsons, A., Neubeck, L., Atherton, I., Guthrie, B., McKinstry, B., & Hanley, J. (2023). Exploring the patient experience of remote hypertension management in Scotland during COVID-19: a qualitative study. BMJ Open, 13(12), Article e078944. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-078944

Objectives
The aim of this study was to understand how patients experienced hypertension management, with or without BP telemonitoring, during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Design, Methods, participants, and setting
This qualitative study conducted b... Read More about Exploring the patient experience of remote hypertension management in Scotland during COVID-19: a qualitative study.

Credit rating downgrades and systemic risk (2023)
Journal Article
Kladakis, G., & Skouralis, A. (2024). Credit rating downgrades and systemic risk. Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, 90, Article 101902. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intfin.2023.101902

We examine whether changes in issuer credit ratings by the three main providers are associated with changes in systemic risk. First, we find that rating downgrades result in an increase in bank systemic risk, whereas upgrades do not proportionally re... Read More about Credit rating downgrades and systemic risk.

Songs for the Falling Angel - a case study examining one example of 'Digging' in a closed archive to uncover an interdisciplinary research topic (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Scott, A. (2023, December). Songs for the Falling Angel - a case study examining one example of 'Digging' in a closed archive to uncover an interdisciplinary research topic. Paper presented at Media Studies Seminar 2023: Rethinking Broadcast Archives: Dig, Deconstruct, Display, London, UK

Paper and creative practice film presented to this International Symposium of the Media Studie Commission of FIAT/IFTA (International Federation of Television Archives). The paper investigates the legacy and impact of my 1991 ITV 60 minute television... Read More about Songs for the Falling Angel - a case study examining one example of 'Digging' in a closed archive to uncover an interdisciplinary research topic.

Songs for the Falling Angel - a case study examining one example of 'digging' in a closed archive to uncover an interdisciplinary research topic (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Scott, A. (2023, December). Songs for the Falling Angel - a case study examining one example of 'digging' in a closed archive to uncover an interdisciplinary research topic. Paper presented at Media Studies Seminar: Rethinking Broadcast Archives - Dig, Deconstruct, Display, British Film Institute, London

Paper and creative practice film presented at the FIAT/IFTA (International Federation of Television Archives) Symposium

Association between menstrual cycle phase and metabolites in healthy, regularly menstruating women in UK Biobank, and effect modification by inflammatory markers and risk factors for metabolic disease (2023)
Journal Article
MacGregor, K. A., Ho, F. K., Celis-Morales, C. A., Pell, J. P., Gallagher, I. J., & Moran, C. N. (2023). Association between menstrual cycle phase and metabolites in healthy, regularly menstruating women in UK Biobank, and effect modification by inflammatory markers and risk factors for metabolic disease. BMC Medicine, 21(1), Article 488. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-023-03195-w

Background: Preliminary evidence demonstrates some parameters of metabolic control, including glycaemic control, lipid control and insulin resistance, vary across the menstrual cycle. However, the literature is inconsistent, and the underlying mechan... Read More about Association between menstrual cycle phase and metabolites in healthy, regularly menstruating women in UK Biobank, and effect modification by inflammatory markers and risk factors for metabolic disease.

Intraspecific facilitation of the recruitment of a burrowing mangrove crab species along an environmental gradient (2023)
Journal Article
Schmidt, A. J., & Diele, K. (2024). Intraspecific facilitation of the recruitment of a burrowing mangrove crab species along an environmental gradient. Ocean and Coastal Research, 72(suppl 1), 23039-23040. https://doi.org/10.1590/2675-2824072.22162

The exploited mangrove crab Ucides cordatus, an important ecosystem engineer in South American mangroves, has a biphasic lifecycle with pelagic larvae developing offshore. Megalopae return to the mangrove forest to settle, i.e., metamorphose into ben... Read More about Intraspecific facilitation of the recruitment of a burrowing mangrove crab species along an environmental gradient.

Translated transcription of a focus group with participative councillors, for information literacy research in Brazil (2023)
Data
Ryan, B., & Cruickshank, P. (2023). Translated transcription of a focus group with participative councillors, for information literacy research in Brazil. [Dataset]. https://doi.org/10.17869/enu.2023.3407211

This focus group took place on 24 January 2019, in São Paulo city hall. It was held in English and Portuguese with eight participative councillors, with in situ interpretation. The outcome of the research was a paper presenting an evaluation of the i... Read More about Translated transcription of a focus group with participative councillors, for information literacy research in Brazil.

Effective and Fast-Screening Route to Evaluate Dynamic Elastomer-Filler Network Reversibility for Sustainable Rubber Composite Design (2023)
Journal Article
Xia, T., Wemyss, A. M., Salehiyan, R., Heeley, E. L., Hu, X., Tang, F., Sun, Y., Hughes, D. J., McNally, T., & Wan, C. (2023). Effective and Fast-Screening Route to Evaluate Dynamic Elastomer-Filler Network Reversibility for Sustainable Rubber Composite Design. ACS sustainable chemistry & engineering, 11, 17857-17869. https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.3c06752

The introduction of self-healing and reprocessability into conventional vulcanized rubbers has been recognized as a promising strategy to promote elastomer circularity. However, the reversibility and recovery of cross-linking polymer networks have of... Read More about Effective and Fast-Screening Route to Evaluate Dynamic Elastomer-Filler Network Reversibility for Sustainable Rubber Composite Design.

Evaluation of Frameworks That Combine Evolution and Learning to Design Robots in Complex Morphological Spaces (2023)
Journal Article
Li, W., Buchanan, E., Goff, L. K. L., Hart, E., Hale, M. F., Wei, B., Carlo, M. D., Angus, M., Woolley, R., Gan, Z., Winfield, A. F., Timmis, J., Eiben, A. E., & Tyrrell, A. M. (online). Evaluation of Frameworks That Combine Evolution and Learning to Design Robots in Complex Morphological Spaces. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, https://doi.org/10.1109/tevc.2023.3316363

Jointly optimising both the body and brain of a robot is known to be a challenging task, especially when attempting to evolve designs in simulation that will subsequently be built in the real world. To address this, it is increasingly common to combi... Read More about Evaluation of Frameworks That Combine Evolution and Learning to Design Robots in Complex Morphological Spaces.

Using Activity Theory to evaluate factors driving Internationalisation at Home in Chinese Higher Education (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Luo, L., Cruickshank, P., & Richards, K. (2023, December). Using Activity Theory to evaluate factors driving Internationalisation at Home in Chinese Higher Education. Poster presented at 2023 SRHE Conference, Birmingham

“Internationalisation at home” (IaH) is an aspect of internationalisation of higher education (IoHE) which aims at making global citizenship development available to all students and academics, not just the minority who can travel. IaH requires a rev... Read More about Using Activity Theory to evaluate factors driving Internationalisation at Home in Chinese Higher Education.

Stalingrad (2023)
Book Chapter
Bishop, D. (2023). Stalingrad. In Fiends of the Eastern Front (48-95). Oxford: Rebellion

A graphic fiction serial by David Bishop and Colin MacNeil, published in Fiends of the Eastern Front Volume 1.

Joseph Campbell’s Oriental mythology in Ghost in the Shell (1995) and Occidental mythology in Ghost in the Shell (2017) (2023)
Journal Article
Li, Q., Tan, E. L. P., & Yang, J. (2023). Joseph Campbell’s Oriental mythology in Ghost in the Shell (1995) and Occidental mythology in Ghost in the Shell (2017). Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 10, Article 914. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-023-02435-x

Adaptation studies in media have been carried out for decades since the 1950s. When media is adapted between different forms, the narrative inherently changes; even more so when they cross a cultural divide between Japan and the United States. That i... Read More about Joseph Campbell’s Oriental mythology in Ghost in the Shell (1995) and Occidental mythology in Ghost in the Shell (2017).